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NASA's SDO Sees Massive Filament Erupt on Sun
September 4, 2012 On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled ... > full story -
Solar Events Blocking Martian Satellite Signal Pinpointed
July 24, 2012 In August of 2005, the Mars Express spacecraft was dutifully sending back data on the stratigraphy of the upper regions of the Martian crust when its signal kept getting interrupted. Scientists ... > full story -
NASA Sees Sun Send out Mid-Level Solar Flare
July 19, 2012 A new image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on July 19, 2012 of an M7.7 class solar flare. The image represents light in the 131 Angstrom wavelength, which is particularly good for ... > full story -
Sun's Coronal Mass Ejection Results in Aurora Show on Earth
July 16, 2012 Over the July 14-15, 2012 weekend and through the early morning of July 16, Earth experienced what's called a geomagnetic storm, which happens when the magnetic bubble around Earth, the ... > full story -
Sounds of Northern Lights Are Born Close to Ground
July 9, 2012 For the first time, researchers have located where the sounds associated with the northern lights are created. The auroral sounds that have been described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers are ... > full story -
Solar Flare: Another M-Class Flare from Sunspot 1515
July 5, 2012 Active Region 1515 has now spit out 12 M-class flares since July 3. Early in the morning of July 5, 2012, there was an M6.1 flare. It peaked at 7:44 AM EDT. This caused a moderate -- classified as R2 ... > full story -
New Solar Active Region Spitting out Flares
June 14, 2012 An active region on the sun, numbered AR 1504, rotated into view over the left side of the sun on June 10, 2012. The region fired off two M-class flares and two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) on June ... > full story -
Uranus Auroras Glimpsed from Earth
April 13, 2012 For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of ... > full story -
Cassini Makes Simultaneous Measurements of Saturn's Nightside Aurora and Associated Electric Current System
March 27, 2012 Since the NASA / ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004, astronomers and space scientists have been able to study the ringed planet and its moons in great detail. Now, for the first ... > full story -
Northern Lights: First-Ever Measurement of Auroral Turbulence Using a Nanosatellite Radar Receiver
March 22, 2012 Researchers have taken the first-ever measurement of naturally occurring auroral turbulence recorded using a nanosatellite radar ... > full story
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